29 Facts About Ingo Swann

Ingo Douglass Swann was an American psychic, artist, and author, whose claims of clairvoyance were investigated as a part of the Central Intelligence Agency's Stargate Project.

Ingo Swann was born in Telluride, Colorado on September 14th, 1933.

Ingo Swann claimed to have out-of-body experiences beginning at three years of age, during a tonsil removal operation, after which he began to see colorful 'auras' around certain objects.

Ingo Swann was a prominent celebrity Scientologist during the 1970s having attained the level of Operating Thetan through Scientology auditing.

Ingo Swann is commonly credited with proposing the idea of controlled remote viewing, a process in which viewers would view a location given nothing but its geographical coordinates, which was developed and tested by Puthoff and Targ with CIA funding.

Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, two experimenters, tested Geller and Ingo Swann and concluded that they had unique skills.

The targets that Ingo Swann was to attempt to describe and illustrate were on a shelf two feet from the ceiling and several feet above Ingo Swann's head.

Ingo Swann sat alone in the chamber, wires from electrodes fastened to his head running through the wall behind him.

Ingo Swann was given a clipboard to use for sketching.

In Ingo Swann's book To Kiss Earth Goodbye there is a photograph of the objects on the shelf.

Ingo Swann wrote that he knew most of the objects on a shelf above his head, but he did not know it held four numbers on a side that would not have been visible if a reflecting surface had been angled near the end.

Osis stressed the odds of Ingo Swann being correct were forty thousand to one.

Silfen and Ingo Swann prepared an unofficial report of later out-of-body experiments and circulated it to 500 members of the ASPR before the ASPR board was aware of it.

Ingo Swann claimed that in April 1972, the ASPR in New York attempted to discredit him and expel him due to his affiliation with Scientology.

When Ingo Swann arrived at SRI, Harold Puthoff decided he would first be tested for PK.

Ingo Swann said he focused his attention on the interior of the magnetometer and was getting nothing.

Ingo Swann said he took his mind off the machine and was sketching.

Ingo Swann said his feats frightened some doctoral candidates, claiming that two "virtually ran" from the room and one collided with a "totally visible" structure support.

Ingo Swann related this SNAFU in his book, Remote Viewing: The Real Story.

Ingo Swann had seven hits for the tenth run, two neutral and one miss.

Yet, on the evening of 27 April 1973, Targ and Puthoff recorded Ingo Swann's remote viewing session of the planet Jupiter and Jupiter's moons, before the Voyager probe's visit there in 1979.

Ingo Swann said his ability to see Jupiter took about three and a half minutes.

Ingo Swann claimed to see bands of crystals in the atmosphere, which he likened to clouds and possibly like the rings of Saturn.

Ingo Swann did not mention any of the 95 moons of Jupiter.

The results with Ingo Swann suggested that there were associated measurable changes in brain activity during his remote viewing.

Ingo Swann reported that out of the twenty-five criminal cases he worked on between 1972 and 1979, twenty-two were flops, and three were successes.

Ingo Swann concludes that extraterrestrials are living on Earth in humanoid bodies.

Ingo Swann deduces that there are many extraterrestrials, that many are "bio-androids", and that they are aware their only foes on Earth are psychics.

Ingo Swann was thrown to safety by his colleagues and sustained a minor injury.